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What is Imperialism?
The policy in which stronger nations extend
economic, political, cultural, or military
control over weaker territories.
We are the big bully!
Where? Under-developed areas of the
world: Africa, India, China, Middle

The Cold War: The United States
VS. The Soviet Union (1945-1991)
Cold War
The rivalry between the
US and the USSR.we
were trying to get the
world to follow our
ideology and they
were trying to get the
world to follow their
ideology
American Policy of Cont

Enlightenment
A. The age of reason when people began to
look for laws governing human behavior
B.
People think for themselves! vs.
a King (Absolutism)
5 Concepts of the Philosophes:
1. Reason- truth only through reason (comm. sense)
2. Nature- natural law